Topic: Infrastructure: Energy, Ports, Roads, Airports, Railways etc.
4. India’s transition towards a clean energy system is vital for mitigating climate change and ensuring sustainable economic growth. However, several constraints and challenges hinder this transition. Analyse. (250 words)
Difficulty level: Moderate
Reference: Indian Express
Why the question:
The article discusses how current approaches to the green transition often overlook the social and political complexities, both at the international and domestic levels.
Key Demand of the question:
To write about challenges for clean energy transition of India and measures to overcome them.
Directive:
Analyse – When asked to analyse, you must examine methodically the structure or nature of the topic by separating it into component parts and present them in a summary.
Structure of the answer:
Introduction:
Introduce with the current status of energy dependency and efforts for clean energy transition by India.
Body:
First, write about the need for clean energy transition.
Next, write about the constraints with the clean energy transitions such as clean energy transition will be long and expensive, fossil fuels will dominate the energy basket during this transition phase, “ OPEC plus” will resurge in market influence, etc.
Suggest measures to overcome the above.
Conclusion:
Conclude writing a way forward.
